1 Kings 1:36
1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded to the king: “So be it! May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it!
1 Kings 1:48
1:48 and said this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’”
1 Kings 2:23
2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!
1 Kings 2:33
2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, and his dynasty.”
1 Kings 2:44
2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did.
1 Kings 3:2-3
3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.
3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 3:5
3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.”
1 Kings 5:12
5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty.
1 Kings 6:19
6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.
1 Kings 6:37
6:37 In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 7:40
7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.
1 Kings 7:45
7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 7:48
7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,
1 Kings 8:4
8:4 The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy items in the tent.
1 Kings 8:15
8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.
1 Kings 8:18
8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.
1 Kings 8:22
Solomon Prays for Israel
8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.
1 Kings 8:57
8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.
1 Kings 8:61
8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”
1 Kings 9:1
The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning
9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,
1 Kings 11:4
11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
1 Kings 11:10
11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord’s command.
1 Kings 13:1
13:1 Just then a prophet from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
1 Kings 13:9
13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ‘Do not eat or drink there and do not go home the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:17
13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ‘Do not eat or drink there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 14:7
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
1 Kings 14:14
14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!
1 Kings 14:22
14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
1 Kings 14:24
14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
1 Kings 14:26
14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14:28
14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
1 Kings 15:3-4
15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.
15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty in Jerusalem by giving him a son to succeed him and by protecting Jerusalem.
1 Kings 15:15
15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.
1 Kings 15:26
15:26 He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.
1 Kings 15:30
15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel.
1 Kings 15:34
15:34 He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16:26
16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
1 Kings 16:33
16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 17:16
17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.
1 Kings 17:24
17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”
1 Kings 18:15
18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 Kings 18:22
18:22 Elijah said to them: “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:30-32
18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down.
18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new name.”
18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
1 Kings 18:38
18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.
1 Kings 18:46
18:46 Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
1 Kings 19:9
19:9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 19:12
19:12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.
1 Kings 19:15
19:15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.
1 Kings 21:25-26
21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
21:26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, just like the Amorites whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)
1 Kings 22:11-12
22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”
22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:16
22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
1 Kings 22:20
22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?’ One said this and another that.
1 Kings 22:28
22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, all you people.”
1 Kings 22:38
22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen.